The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-09-17
BRfEFIA Ed.

HE ceiling or an Ithaca store has
been covered with plush.
DATE and Barbary thistle are fash
ionable woods for canes.
JAPANESE are buying land in Cal
aVeras County, Nevada.
LANDS in Southern Arkansas are
fast coming into demand.
THERE are sixty-fve Roman Catholic
Churches in New York City.
THE people of Toledo are now sup
piled with gas by two pipe lines.
FIVE hundred boys and girls sell loz.
enges on the streets OF New York.
THE Prussian hussars are to have
a lighter straight and double-e dged
sword.
THE police force at Sherman, Tex,
is to be reinforced by a pack OF blood
hounds.
OVER one million fshpoles are inn
ported into this country annually by
one firm,
SINCE 1852 seventy-fve Sandwich
Islanders have gone as foreign mis-
slOnaries.
ABOUT 100000 cans of French sar-
UlhOS eIC IOISuLucu III JHlS COuutIy
ever year.
A NEW Russian explosive ten times
as powerful as gunpowder, is called
'sllltWOr."
A CITIZEN OF New London, Conn,
has beard which is six feet eight
inches long.
TwENTY-sEy thousand emigrants
landed at Castle Garden during the
month Of July.
THE Philadelphia truss factories
turn out over two hundred thOusan d
trusses per year.
AFAILURE to vaccinate is punished
at Phoenix, Arizona, by $500 fine or
six months IN Jail.
N. GOLDSMITH, of Maplewood, Sulli-
van County, n. y, has found petri-
fed potato III hisgarden.
YOLO County, California, has 3S 900
acres in vines, three thousand OF which
are vines of the raisin grape.
THREE clergymen belong to a fire
company of Cambridge, n. Y, and
one of them is its foreman.
A MAN is said to have picked sixty
quarts of huckleberries at Martha's
Vineyard one day recently.
AT San Jose, Cal, are apricot trees
that bear from one thousand to fifteen
hundred pounds Of fruit each.
A SHOEMAKER in Bingen has invent
ed water velocipede, with which ne
has madesuCCessful trial trips.
THE largest graduating class in the
world Is that of the Chautauqua Uni
versity. In 1886, 4, 624 graduated.
Observation-Disclosures IN Washin gton
territory talk OF sending south for
black labor, workmen being so scarce.
A WASHINGTON butcher has invent
ed canvas hat for horses to keep
off the SUMS heat and prevent sun
stroke.
THERE is Mormon superstition for
bidding an undertaken to make any
lncision in the attempted process fem
balming.
The Smithsonian ethnologists have
necklace made OF human finger
bones. 1t is the work OF q Cheyenne
medicine man.
A NEGRO committed suicide in At
lanta, Ga, one day recently because
his wife refused to mend his clothes
and sew on buttons.
PROBABLY the oldest man in Ten
nesee is Henry Cleggy, Of Meiggs Coun-
ty, who is 1O5 years OF age. and still
in the best of health.
The 175 grandchildren of noted
Utah apostle of pOiygamy are all I'M
der twenty-nine years OF age, says the
Phoebe New Record.
BUENOs AYRES Is to have new
theater that will accommodate four
thousand spectators. The cost is esti-
mated at 100000.
THE sum OF 100000 is to be dis
tributed among the blind poor OF New
York, and as there are five hundred
OF them each will get $40.
MORE bears have been killed IN the
State of Main this year than IN any
year previous within the memory OF
the Oldest furriers IN the state.
THE police-matron system is about
TO be adopted by the Cincinnatidepart-
ment 1t is found to have worked in
Philadelphia with excellent results.
MAYOR HEWITT has issued an order
instructing the city police to see that
all music in concert halls and the
like is stopped promptly at midnight.
Ex-ATrY. GEN. Colt, OF Rhode
Island, says it is impossible to force
the prohibition law in that state
because juries will not convict offend
ers.
IN Eastern Nevada it has recently
been discovered by chance that the
noble red man mirgles manufactured
squirrel scalps with the genuine ar
ticle.
AN amusing example OF naturalists'
Latin is the name OF q splendid new
broadbilp' (bird) which has been
christened the caIyptonena white
head.
The amount annually expended for
benevolent purposes in New York Is
estimated at about $500, 900.
There are 800 charitable societies aud
institutions.
A BILL to prevent the misuse OF
railroad earnings to influence legisla-
ton has been passed to a second read
ing IN the New Hampshire house OF
representatives
In the North Indian Conferences of
the Methodist Episcopal Church there
are in the Sunday school $4,000 chill
dren, of whom rs, 900 are HindoOs and
Mohammedans.
A CHILD one year old fell into a
Broadland ID. IT, dry well forty feet
deep. It struck IN the mud at the
bottom, and was pulled out apparent
ly little injured
As many as twenty Congregational
Churches have been organized within
two years in Southern California, and
a marked revival spirit prevailed dur
lug the past winter.
JACKSONVILLE (Ill.) people are relolc-
Ing over their artesian we'll, now 2,15O
feet deep. ana which flows 1900 gal
Ions per day. 1t will be sunk deeper
to secure a stronger flow.
THE Paris figaro gives the follow
ing "a an infallible remedy for forti,
tying the eyesight: Rub with the fin
gers. night aud morning, the temples
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